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1. IOR/L/PS/10/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 1-2 'Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/1) concerns the installation (and temporary withdrawal) of a Political Agent at Kuwait. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/2) concerns proposals for, and the eventual establishment of, a Post Office in Kuwait. Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1899-1915
Extent:
1 volume (298 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/49
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Command...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6-8 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 6, 7, and 8 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/1) concerns the status of citizens of Kuwait in Persia. Part 7 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/2) concerns the proposal that vessels from Kuwait should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would brin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1908
Extent:
1 volume (324 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9-10 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 9 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/1) concerns the rights of the Ruler of Kuwait to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr]. Part 10 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/2) concerns the Ruler of Kuwait's relations with the Ottoman Empire, and his ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1912
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/130
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 1 ‘Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning expenditure by the Government of India and the Foreign Office on diplomatic and consular services, mostly relating to Persia [Iran]. It also includes some correspondence relating to expenditure at the Koweit [Kuwait] Political Agency from 1904-1905 (the year i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1908-28 Feb 1911
Extent:

1 volume (322 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/262
Title:
File 1247/1912 Pts 1-2 'KOWEIT & MOHAMMERAH ANGLO-TURKISH AGREEMENT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1896-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/624

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/624
Title:
File 3784/1916 ‘War: Persia German Consular Archives’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of translated copies of selected records from the German Consulate at Bushire, Persia [Iran]. These records largely consist of correspondence of the German Consulate at Bushire with the German Imperial Chancellor in Berlin and the German Legation at Tehran, dated 1899 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1916-2 Jun 1916
Extent:

1 volume (281 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/827
Title:
File 2297/1919 ‘Persian Gulf Residency Monthly Reports. 1912-20.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of reports of news received by the Persian Gulf Residency (the ‘Political Diary’ of the Residency) relating to various areas of Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf, for each month from November 1911 to December 1920 (there is no report for June 1914). The parts of Persia covered...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1912-5 Apr 1921
Extent:

1 volume (518 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/843
Title:
File 4006/1919 Pt 1 ‘Arabia:- Visit of the sons of the Sheikh of Koweit + Amir of Nejd to England.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to the visit, as state guests, of a deputation (Mission) from Koweit [Kuwait], including Sheikh Ahmad bin Jabar [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], the heir to the Emir of Koweit [Kuwait], and a deputation (Mission) from Najd (Nejd), including Faisal ibn ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1919-28 Mar 1924
Extent:

1 volume (428 folios)